Good evening, and right before we dive into these wild measles stats from across the country,

I'll quickly mention that our team here at the Epic Times recently put together and published a great documentary on Charlie Kirk.

It's called Truth Under Fire, and it basically traces the origin of the extremist labels that were imposed on Charlie,

and it pinpoints the timeline of how that smear campaign,

how it actually unfolded, and how it eventually culminated in his assassination.

If you'd like to check out that documentary, which not only traces the life of Charlie,

but also sort of paints a picture of the media more broadly,

I'll throw a link to it. You can find it down

in the description box below. And now getting into today's actual topic, if you've been to a hospital

recently like I have, you've probably seen a sign or a notice like this one, warning you about

a measles uptick happening across the country. And before we dive into what's actually

driving this uptick, let me give you a brief history of measles here in America.

In 1912, measles became a nationally notifiable disease in the United States,

requiring U.S. healthcare providers and laboratories to report all diagnosed cases.

In the first decade of reporting, an average of 6,000 measles-related deaths were

reported each year. In the decade before 1963, when a vaccine became available, nearly all

children got measles by the time they were 15 years of age. It is estimated that 3 to 4 million

people in the United States were infected each year. Also, each year, among reported cases,

an estimated 4,500 people died, 48,000 were hospitalized, and 1,000 suffered encephalitis,

which is swelling of the brain from measles. Measles was declared eliminated, which is the absence

of continuous disease transmission for greater than 12 months from the United States

in the year 2000. This was thanks to a highly effective vaccination program in the United States,

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